The refuge of affections : family and American reform politics, 1900-1920 /
The Progressives-those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research-have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that...
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2001.
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| Series: | Columbia studies in contemporary American history.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/rauc12146 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Aknowledgments
- Abbreviations and manuscript citations
- Introduction
- 1. Dorothy Whitney and Willard Straight
- 2. Mary Ritter and Charles Beard
- 3. Lucy Sprague and Wesley Clair Mitchell
- 4. War and the Progressive Family
- 5. The Narrative of Progress versus the Logic of Events
- Epilogue: The Rise and Fall of The Rise of American Civilization; or, A Further Parable on the Narrative of Progress and the Logic of Events
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index.